Bailey White Books In Order

Novels

  1. Quite a Year for Plums (1998)

Collections

  1. Sleeping at the Starlite Motel (1995)
  2. Nothing with Strings (2008)

Non fiction

  1. Mama Makes Up Her Mind (1983)

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Bailey White Books Overview

Quite a Year for Plums

4 cassettes / 5 1/2 hoursUnabridgedRead by the author, Bailey WhiteAnyone who has read the bestselling Mama Makes Up Her Mind or listened to Bailey White’s commentaries on NPR knows that she is a storyteller of inimitable wit and charm. Now, in her stunningly accomplished first novel, she introduces us to the peculiar yet lovable people who inhabit a small town in south Georgia. Meet serious, studious Roger, the peanut pathologist and unlikely love object of half the town’s women. Meet Roger’s ex mother in law, Louise, who teams up with an ardent typographer in an attempt to attract outer space invaders with specific combinations of letters and number. And meet Della, the bird artist who captivates Roger with the sensible but enigmatic notes she leaves on things she throws away at the Dumpster ‘This fan works, but it makes a clicking sound and will not oscillate’. Listen to this heartbreakingly tender, often hilarious, story from a writer who has been called a national treasure

Sleeping at the Starlite Motel

Anyone who has read her bestseller Mama Makes Up Her Mind or who has heard her on National Public Radio knows that Bailey White is one of the keenest observers of Southern eccentricity since Mark Twain. Sleeping at the Starlite Motel revives White’s reputation as a master storyteller, Southern division, as it catalogs the oddities of the Georgia town she knwons so well.

Nothing with Strings

For more than a decade, Bailey White has delivered a story each Thanksgiving to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered listeners. Long awaited by her many fans, Nothing with Strings is the entire collection of these Thanksgiving stories, published together for the first time. With wit and charm, White writes about an almost gone little town where a spoon player is a guardian angel, an old woman fears that John James Audubon is living in her attic, and a homely governess wins a baby bull in a raffle and loses her heart. It’s the kind of place where Heavenly Blue morning glories grow in through the windows of old houses and funeral food is shared on a Greyhound bus on a fall afternoon. You may not have ever been there, but you will feel right at home. White’s beautifully written stories, teetering on the edge of the unreal, are sure to bring back memories you don’t really have. These are the stories that can be found in Nothing with Strings:’Meals On Wheels”The Long Black Veil’ ‘What Would They Say in Birmingham?”The Progress of Deglutition”The Telephone Man”Miss Wigglesworth’s Bull”Bus Ride”Return to Sender”Lonesome Without You”The Garden”Nothing with Strings”The Green Bus”Almost Gone’

Mama Makes Up Her Mind

Welcome to the unique world of Bailey White. Her aunt Belle may take you to see her bellowing pet alligator. Her uncle Jimbuddy may appall you with his knack for losing pieces of himself. Most of all, you may succumb utterly to the charms of Bailey’s mama, who will take you to a juke joint so raunchy it scared Ernest Hemingway or tuck you into her antique guest bed that has the disconcerting habit of folding up on people while they sleep.

White s indelible vignettes of Southern eccentricity have entranced millions who have heard her read them on NPR. Mama Makes Up Her Mind is as sweetly intoxicating as a mint julep and as invigorating as a walk in White s own overgrown garden.

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